He forbids himself from saying those words.... but the short-lived bliss that is to ensue is not worth the many months, even years, of mental torture being physically away from each other.
In the most unlikely of circumstances, they found each other.
The most unlikely place, perhaps.
She was brought there by the simple passion for travel.
He was brought there by chance.
He arrived defeated in morale, for amidst all advice not to go, he persuaded himself to accompany his best mate for that presumably once-in-a-lifetime trip.
Little did he know, that what was right around the corner, would be a gem, an individual so similar to himself.
It started with a coin-trick he picked up on the trip - and the surprisingly "friendly as if they have known each other all their lives" conversation they shared after dinner. The acquisition of phone number did the rest.
The couple of months that followed was a process of discovery.
The meeting-up, this time planned, went beautifully.
He and she knew right there and then there is something more.
... those words, however, must not be said.
